Cooking for Vegans

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Vegan options in chain restaurants

Chain restaurants often have menus and special diets information (sometimes
specifying vegan dishes) on their websites, so check the website if you're
planning to go to one. If that doesn't help, give the restaurant a call
or an email if you want to check that there'll be a vegan option at the
place you want to go to. I find that customer services often don't seem
to have any information about what goes into their restaurants' food,
but the restaurants themselves should be able to help.

Las Iguanas: have a few vegan or veganisable dishes, check with your
local restaurant.

Nando's: According to their website, the veggieburger and pitta are suitable
for vegans if you ask for them without the mayonnaise. The restaurants
have a booklet listing all the ingredients in their menu items which customers
can look at on request.

Pizza Express: The pizza dough and the tomato sauce are suitable for
vegans and they make the pizzas up from fresh so will leave non-vegan
items off pizzas on request. Their pesto is not suitable for vegans.

Pizza Hut: The Pan Pizza and The Italian pizza bases and tomato sauce
are suitable for vegans and you can order pizzas without the cheese (and
add extra vegetable toppings as normal). The online delivery order form
lets you select "no cheese" as a topping choice. Some of the
starters, dips and salad bar items are also vegan. Vegan list here.

Prezzo: According to a reply I had from them on their Facebook page (Nov
09), the pizza bases are vegan and can be ordered without cheese and the
arrosto salad can be ordered without the cheese, and of the starters the
house bread with olive oil and balsamic vinegar and the minestrone soup
are suitable for vegans.

Tampopo: Restaurants serving
East Asian food with branches in Manchester, Trafford Centre, Leeds, Bristol
and London. Vegan options are labelled on the menu and there's even a
choice of vegan desserts.

Wagamama: The website has a 'dishes
which can be made vegan' list and if you ask the waiters at the restaurant
they will bring you a copy of the actual vegan list. When I went to the
Sheffield one they also had a couple of vegan desserts (sorbet and fruit
ice lollies).

Wetherspoons: They have a sweet potato, spinach and chickpea curry which
is labelled as suitable for vegans on the menu, and a new 'curry club'
dish, aubergine and spinach dhansak, which is also labelled vegan (served
on Thursday evenings). A few of the curry club side dishes are also vegan,
plus the spicy tomato pasta. Nutritional info pages here.